>  CS> People of my level of tall stature (5'1" and dont you
DARE delete that
 >  CS> 1" as I'm proud of it!)
 > 
 >   At 17 I was 6'1" and my mother was 5'2".  I recall once
at that age I had
 > done something that upset her.  She was standing in front of me, looking up 
 > wagging her finger at me saying I wasn't too big to take over her knee, as I
 > looked down at her.  :)

Betcha she'd have whupped ya to if you tried anything!  Moms are like that
;-)


(on Bikes and shopping)

 >  CS> Real live use to get to and from work every day and bring home the
 >  CS> groceries, that style is useless.
 > 
 >   I have a basket on the front of my bike which is my
"trunk".  I've used cl
 > shopping bags for years.  Not for any high principled reason, but because I
 > know when the bag is full that's all the room I have left in my basket.  :)

Works for me.  I gained a fine eye for what would fit.  I could gauge a
backpack, a pull cart, or the bicycle baskets to a T eventually.

     xxcarol
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